1. From Organizational learning to knowing in practice 1.1 Conventional wisdom 1.2 The institutionalization of the field: the birth of the learning organization 1.3 Organizational learning as disciplinary discourse 1.4 The reification of knowledge in the knowledge management literature 1.5 Knowing in practice: neither in the head nor as a commodity 1.6 The philosophical roots of the concept of practice 1.7 The sociological roots of the concept of practice 1.8 What is a practice? 1.9 To sum up: two narratives of learning and knowing 2. The texture of knowing in practice 2.1 Texture as connectedness in action 2.2 A methodological framework: the spiral case study 2.3 The power of associations 2.4 To sum up: weaving the texture of situated practices 3. On becoming a practitioner 3.1 Being "on site" 3.2 Sfety and silence of the organization: teh culture of practice 3.3 The knowlwdge pointers 3.4 Knowing as aesthetic understanding 3.5 Conversation in practice and conversation on practice 3.6 Knowledge mediated by social relations, artefacts and norms 3.7 How "you learn nothing at school 3.8 To sum up: becoming a practitioner 4. Knowing in a community of practitioners 4.1 Community of practice or the practices of a community? 4.2 The situated curriculum 4.3 Gaining access to a situated curriculum 4.4 How power relations shape opportunities to learn 4.5 Practising, teaching and talking about them 4.6 To sum up: The incorporated "known" an the enacted "knowing" 5. Knowing across communities 5.1 Practices of accountability 5.2 Mirror games 5.3 Positioning: the discursive production of subjectivity 5.4 Doing thigs with words 5.5 To sum up: practices whitc perform communities 6. Knowing within an organization while mending its texture 6.1 Breakdowns in a texture 6.2 Darning: the art of invisible mending 6.3 Patching: the art remedial mending 6.4 Quilting: the art of signalling 6.5 Meding the texture and translating knowledge 6.6 To sum up: between the visible and the invisible 7. Knowing within a field of practices 7.1 Networks as distributed and fragmented knowledge 7.2 Safety as surveillance and punishment 7.3 Safety as safe technologies and artefacts 7.4 Safety as training and consultancy 7.5 To sum up: the woofs and warps of a semless web 8. The mutual constitution of practice and practising 8.1 Material-discursive practices 8.2 Knowing in practice 8.3 A theoretical and methodological framework 8.4 Actionable knowledge